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    Airframe Family: Bell 12/13/15/23/26/24/33/43 / P-39 Airacobra / P-63 Kingcobra
    Latest Model:P-39Q-10-BE Airacobra
    Last Military Serial:42-20733 USAAF
    Construction Number:26E-188
    Last Civil Registration:N92847
    Compressed ID:Bell P-39Q-10-BE sn 42-20733 USAAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Skylanes Unlimited Inc, Niagara Falls, NY

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-39Q-10-BE.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-20733.

    26 July 1946

    To Skylanes Unlimited Inc, Niagara Falls, NY with new c/r N92847.

    By 30 August 1946

    To unknown owner with c/r N92847.

    1946

    Raced as #75.

    1946


    Photographer: Bell Aerospace
    Notes: When Air Racing resumed at Cleveland in 1946 Bell Test pilots Jack Woolams and Tex Johnston were entered with a pair of well equipped P-39 Airacobras. Cobra I and Cobra II were photographed prior to the races at the Bell Factory in Buffalo, New York.

    1946


    Photographer: John Garrett Collection
    Notes: Jack Woolams was the pilot of Cobra I. Photographed on the ramp at Cleveland in 1946.

    1946


    Photographer: Bell Aerospace
    Notes: A photo of Jack Wollams with Cobra I. As we know Jack would perish in this airplane during a test flight after an engine change in Buffalo. Most likely cause was the collapse of the windscreen. Bell aircraft took no chances though as some reports thought the tail had come off the airplane. Stiffeners were added to the tail of Cobra II prior to the Thompson and well as reinforcement to the windscreen.

    August 1946


    Photographer: Unknown

    From 30 August 1946 to 2 September 1946

    Raced as #75, named Cobra I.
    Competed at the National Air Races Cleveland in the Thompson Trophy Reciprocating Division race. The primary pilot was Jack Woolams. Qualified in 3rd place with an average speed of 392.700 mph.

    10 October 1946

    Civil registration, N92847, cancelled.


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    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    World Wide Directory of Racing Airplanes Volume 1, (c) 1997 Aviation Publishing Inc. by Don Berliner

    Internet Sources
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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    Mike Henniger

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